• A Date with a Dream
  | image = "A Date with a Dream" (1948).jpg | studio = [[Tempean Films]]
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• Brass Monkey (film)
  '''''Brass Monkey''''' is a 1948 British comedy thriller with musical asides, directed by [[Thornton Freeland]]. It stars [[Carroll Levis]], a ra ...key_1948/ |title=Brass Monkey 1948 &#124; Britmovie &#124; Home of British Films |publisher=Britmovie |date= |accessdate=2014-03-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|u
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• Binnie Hale
  ...an English actress, singer and dancer. She was one of the most successful musical theatre stars in London in the 1920s and 1930s, able to sing leading roles ...ned [[St. Martin's Theatre]]. After this, she played in several revues and musical comedies, including ''150 Pound Revue'' (1917), Charlotte in ''The Kiss Cal
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• John Baxter (director)
  ...the Dole]]'' (1941), and was the producer-director for the musical-comedy films of [[Flanagan and Allen]] during [[World War II]]. ...oduction company with his friend [[John Barter]]. He also acted in several films produced by [[Lance Comfort]].<ref name="google1"/>
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• Benny Lee
  | occupation = {{hlist | Comedy actor | singer}} ...995|access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref> was a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] comedy actor and singer. He started his career in stage roles, and developed a tel
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• Trottie True
  | studio = [[Two Cities Films]] | distributor = [[General Film Distributors]] (UK)<br />[[Eagle-Lion Films]] (US)
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• Our Man in Havana (film)
  ...th Greene.<ref>Before was ''[[The Fallen Idol (film)|The Fallen Idol]]'' (1948), ''[[The Third Man]]'' (1949)</ref> ...xpensive. A deal was done with Carol Reed, who had made several successful films based on Graham Greene's novels, and Columbia Studios, for whom Reed had ju
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• Dick Vosburgh
  {{Short description|American-British comedy writer and lyricist}} ...ndash; 18 April 2007) was a Grammy-nominated, Tony-nominated American-born comedy writer and lyricist working chiefly in Britain.
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• Robert Dorning
  ...hotos|website=AllMovie}}</ref> During the 1930s he had a brief career as a musical comedian in theatre, before choosing acting as his profession. ...)|Mona Lisa]]'' (1986).<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fcd80f1|title=Robert Dorning|website=BFI}}</ref>
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• Doris Hare
  ...West End theatre|West End]] in [[Noël Coward]]'s show ''[[Words and Music (musical)|Words and Music]]'', alongside [[John Mills]]. In 1936, she made her [[Bro ...o Laine]], who was standing in for [[Bertice Reading]]. In 1982, when this musical was revived by [[John Dexter]] at [[Chichester Festival Theatre]], Doris Ha
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• Val Guest
  ...his work for [[w:Hammer Film Productions|Hammer]], for whom he directed 14 films, and [[w:science fiction film]|]s. He enjoyed a long career in the film ind ...n]]'' (1936); ''[[O-Kay for Sound]]'' (1937) for Varnel with [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]; ''[[Alf's Button Afloat]]'' (1938) with Flanagan a
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• Tom Walls
  ...years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in [[Edwardian musical comedy|musical comedy]], touring the British provinces, [[North America]] and [[Australia]] and i ...e specially-written comedies on similar lines, and there were also serious films, particularly later in Walls's career.
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• Bill Owen (actor)
  ...nown for portraying [[Compo Simmonite]] in the [[Yorkshire]]-based [[BBC]] comedy series ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' for over a quarter of a century. He ...arting in 1973 and finishing in 2010, is today the world's longest-running comedy series. Owen became an icon, a darling of its audience and central to its s
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• Tessie O'Shea
  | yearsactive = 1948–1979 ...elped win her a [[w:Tony Award|Tony Award]] for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.<ref name=Whitcomb>{{cite book|last=Whitcomb|first=Ian|title=Ukulele Heroes
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• Cardew Robinson
  | occupation = Comedy actor == Television, films and theatre ==
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• Susan Shaw
  ...ondon Town (1946 film)|London Town]]'' (1946) and a larger part in another musical, ''[[Walking on Air (1946 film)|Walking on Air]]'' (1946).<ref>{{Cite web|u ...ther's Keeper]]'' (1948) at Gainsborough and ''[[London Belongs to Me]]'' (1948), in the latter replacing [[Pat Roc]] who pulled out.<ref>{{cite news |url=
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• Richard Murdoch
  ...edy]], Murdoch quickly moved on to increasingly prominent roles in musical comedy and [[revue]] in the [[West End theatre|West End]] and on tour. He made his ...duated from the chorus to a supporting role in a tour of ''Oh! Letty'', a "musical farce" in which he was praised by [[Neville Cardus]] for "a stretch of dist
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• Leslie Henson
  ...irector]]. He initially worked in [[silent films]] and [[Edwardian musical comedy]] and became a popular [[music hall]] comedian who enjoyed a long stage car ...ed to the West End, playing in ''[[Kissing Time]]'' (1919) and a series of musical comedies and farces throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
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• Dennis Price
  ...Place of One's Own]]'' (1945) starring [[James Mason]]. [[British National Films Company|British National]] borrowed him for ''[[The Echo Murders]]'' (1946) ...borough's ''[[The Magic Bow]]'' (1946) with Granger and Kent. [[Two Cities Films]] used him in one of its melodramas, ''[[Hungry Hill (film)|Hungry Hill]]''
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• Jerry Desmonde
  ...Northern Echo }}</ref> He built a career as a [[song and dance]] man in [[musical theatre]] and later toured parts of the United States in 1927-1928 with [[B ...tps://web.archive.org/web/20070404075445/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/genres/musical/filmography/001.html |archive-date=4 April 2007 }}</ref> an infamous flop,
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